Buckle



P 10, J. BQFREYSINGER 1,727,541

' BUCKLE Filed July 3, 1928 gwue'nfot Patented Sept. 10, 1929.

UNITED STATES JOHN B. FREYSINGER, OF NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT.

BUCKLE.

Application filed July 3,

This invention relates to buckles of the type for securing together the ends of ribbons, bands or the like, the ends of the ribbon being threaded through the buckle and being adjustably and frictionally held in place thereby.

The aim of the present invention is to pro vide an improved buckle of this sort which is very simple in construction, which may be cheaply manufactured, which is etlective in operation, which may be easily applied, and which has a neat and pleasing appearance so that it serves not only as a buckle but as an ornament.

A further aim of the invention is to provide a buckle of this sort of such construction that, during the process of manufacturing the same, the buckles cannot become interlocked with one another in such manner as to make it difficult to separate them.

Other objects will be in part obvious and in part pointed out more in detail hereinafter.

The invention accordingly consists in the features of construction, combination of elements and arrangement of parts which will be exemplified in the construction hereinafter set forth and the scope of the application of which will be indicated. in the appended claim.

In the accompanying drawing wherein I have shown, for illustrative purposes, one embodiment which the present invention may take: 1

Figure 1 is a front elevational" view of my improved buckle, the ribbon or strap being diagrammatically shown by dotted lines;

Fig. 2 is a view taken on line 2-2 of Fig. 1, and shows the buckle in section and the strap in edge elevation; and

Fig. 3 is a vertical sectional view taken on line 3-3 of Fig. 1, the ribbon or belt being omitted.

In the present illustrative disclosure of my invent-ion, the buckle comprises an integral plate formed preferably of sheet metal by stamping out a blank of the desired configuration. The plate may be slightly curved, as illustrated. The buckle or plate has, adjacent each side edge, a slot or elongated opening 10.

1928. Serial No. 290,112.

The buckle also has a central slot 11 parallel to the slots 10 and separated therefrom by bars or cross pieces 12. The bars, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3, are offset somewhat from the plane of the body, portion of the plate. Each end of the plate has a slot or passage 13 leading from the peripheral edge of the plate to the respective side slots 10. These passages 13 are, in the direetionof their lengths, of irregular form in order to prevent the buckles from becoming interlocked with one another when the buckles aremixed together. in the present instance, these passages 13 are generally of V-sha-pe.

T he buckle may be applied to the ends of the ribbonor strap R, as shown most clearly in Fig. 2. The respective ends 20 of the strap pass through the central opening 11, about a bar 12, and then through an openin 0. The passages 13 facilitate threading of the ends of the strap through the openings 10. After the end of a strap has been inserted through the central opening 11, it is bent over one of the bars 12 and then the end of: the strap is folded along its longitudinal medial line and, the folded portion of the strap is inserted edgewise through the passage 13 and then the folded portion of the strap is flattened out in the opening 10.

As previously stated, the passages 13 are irregular, a feature of considerable importance and advantage in that it prevents the buckles from interlocking with one another when the buckles are mixed together. .After the buckles have been stamped to form, they are placed in a tumbling barrel and tumbled in order to remove any burrs and to smooth up the edges. If the passages 18 were straight, the periphery of one buckle could pass through a passage 13 of another buckle, and thus the buckles become so interengaged that they could be separated only at an eX- pense of time and labor. In fact, the buckles would form a long interlocking chain. With the arrangement described, however, the edge or periphery of one buckle cannot pass through the passage 13 of another buckle, and thus interlocking of the buckles is ef- :t'ectively prevented.

As many changes could be made in the.

above construction and many apparently widely different embodiments of this invention could be made without departing from the scope thereof, it is intended that all matter contained in the above description or shown in the accompanying drawing shall be interpreted as illustrative and not in a limiting sense.

It is also to be understood that the language used in the following claim is intended to cover allof the generic'and specific features of the invention herein described and all statements of the scope of the invention which, as a matter of language, might be said to fall therebetween.

I claim as my invention:

A buckle comprising a longitudinally curved plate stamped with a central and end slots providing spaced intermediate bars between the slots offset outwardly from the plate and adapted to receive the looped ends of a strap thereabout, the transverse end portions of the plate having intermediately thereof each a longitudlnally extending passage opening through the end portion from the end of the plate into the adjacent end slot for the free introduction of the strap end, said passages in the end portions of the late being irregular with successive anguarly disposed portions to prevent interlocking of a number of the" buckles when mixed together in a finishing tumbler or the like.

J GEN B. FRE'YSINGER. 

